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CTRL+H & XCHURCH

I’ve been working out of the CTRL+H hackerspace & the
XChurch learning a ton from a VR developer Stephanie Mendoza who works with Portland Immersive Media Group.

Stephanie is teaching me how to use Unity. Its a game engine
and most VR work is done in Unity or in Unreal Engine. She’s showing me how to
create characters, objects, and animate them! Which is a huge challenge. For
those not technically sound imagine creating a cartoon and representing it in a
3-dimensional space, then having that cartoon walk, talk, and have other
objects in that space interact with it. Pretty neat stuff if I may say so
myself.

Now, XChurch is a VR operated group/lab/exhibit space in
Portland that uses the space of an old church (hence the name) to do VR work
here.

I’d say the most interesting thing about being in Portland is that there are so
many artistic people here especially in the VR space…much more than I have ever
seen on the east coast. They are using this technology to create art. It’s beautiful
and it reminds me of modern European tech culture.

So this is day 10. Yes DAY 10 and I have learned a ton and
am enjoying everything so far. Amber is such an influential and resourceful
researcher. I believe it helps having a young mentor who can relate to me in
ways that Professors and other mentors cannot.